Ok, long time no blog, honestly my wife took my phone and put me on Instagram and shockingly I really like it - it is much better for posting pictures of weird shit or for short form/quick blirps about stupid little things I used to put on here. Also I haven't had as much time for long form ramblings and I ramble incoherently with Xavier now and get me fix that way.
However for the best time of the year I need space for my useless thoughts, so long live the Blog!!
Anyone wanting to see my pics of the weird or Xavier you can follow me @ptcallender
So the season is about to start, we are going to have full Urban offense (last years 60% avg about 37pts a game!!) and another "soft" bigten schedule!! It could be an awesome year!! It's weird, under Coop I was always excited about the talent and possibility of explosiveness on offense but nervous as all hell at our inevitable choking somewhere along the line. Under Tress I was always excited about the talent and being sure we'd be good when it count the most, but nervous about if offensive conservatism might cost us a big game or views in the eyes of the voters. Now after 1 year of Urban i'm only nervous because there's not much to be nervous to the experts or anyone you listen too. That's a good sign that we will really be as powerful and exciting as ever, but nervous because the higher the expectations the harder the falls. Then again you don't climb the highest mountains on an easy path!! Lets hope we reach the summit this year! Go Bucks!!
Week 1 games!!
10 pts - Bama over beamer boy, ole fake teeth umpa-lumpa boy himself has 3 of last 4 crystal balls and the SEC gives him a schedule w/o playing Fla/Uga/or SC in the regular season, um your welcome!!
9 pts - Crazy Less's tigers over hornyfrogs, Ok just checking, but we have 2 starters missing 4 games for doing nothing illegal and LSU players are allowed to vote a guy to play from day 1 after he sucker punches a guy on camera and is charged all while being on probation from sexual misconduct because he slept with a 14yr old when he was 18? And people wonder why the SEC keeps winning National Championships!! Anyone know where I can get a Touchdown Johnny autograph?
8 pts - Penn St over Cuse, I probably am crazy specially having this so high, but I think Bill O'Brien might have a deal with the devil. How he got number one rated pro style QB prospect to come to Happy Valley knowing he won't get to play in a bowl game till his Senior year is beyond me!!
7 pts - Fresno St over St U of NJ, it pains me to pick against Rutgers, but traveling cross country for first game of the year.
6 pts - Iowa over N. Ill, am I drunk, god i'm gonna regret these picks come Sunday. However, this is the kind of season where Iowa will have no expectations and come from nowhere to win 10 games.
5 pts - Boise St over husckies, I never pick against Boise St in early big game and they usually come through, hell i'm still bitter they got hosed at Sparty last year.
4 pts - Vandy over ole Miss, hey Vandy's home and ranked, what can go wrong? Uhh, maybe I am drunk.
3 pts - hooves over mormons, nobody's nice to the mormons when they come a knocking and I don't expect any different treatment from the school of founding fathers.
2 pts - Utah St over Utah, I guess? Urban coached at one of these schools right? I hate having Utah schools to pick on, I know nothing about the state of Utah other than there state troopers are really nice!! Yes I was pulled over once in Utah and he just said I wanted to let you know to slow down it's raining up ahead (I was going 84 in a 75)!!
1 pt - Uga over Clemson, tough pick early in season, think going SEC over ACC more than anything, hard for me not to pick Clemson so they'll lose because I hate them, but i'm trying to use my brain. I don't think my other picks support that i'm using my brain?
There it is, It was a bit rushed, got my draft for NFL (not even getting started on the Browns - A BRUISED FUCKING LUNG???)
Go Bucks, please be up by 5 or more touchdowns at half so I can believe the hype of averages 40+pts a game this year!!!
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Saturday, June 8, 2013
if it's good enough for you it's good enough for me...
No secret to me or anyone that knows me even a little to say that my mind works differently. I might even say i'm proud of that - sometimes?
In those times of reflection I too often find my self thinking of death or the things i'll miss when i'm dead like family, friends, music, movies... I find I think about it most often when milestones or big events happen in life - especially when many big events happen in a short amount of time. Having a child seems to be one milestone after another and thankfully keeps me so very busy that I have less time for strolling about in the depths of my thoughts. However today as my son seems on the brink of taking his first steps, my God-Sister is taking steps to accept her degree for graduating high school and going on to college and her brother just got his first job after college and his first apartment my mind has been wandering. They are the first kids I ever watched and my first memories of being "the adult" or at least the responsible person and now I have my own son to make giggle and do fun things with like: watching banana's in pajama's, playing games, and watching the same 30 second clip of a Chris Farley movie 30 times in a row.
I can't really figure why stuff like that makes me think of when i'm gone and what i'll miss, but I do laugh at the things it will make me miss. Obviously i'll miss my family and friends, but the strange thing I thought of today out of the blue that I will miss is "The Goonies"!! Seriously, I can't not remember (i'm proud of that double negative and sentence structure!!) that movie not being in my life. I must have watched it hundred's of times, I have it on my phone so I can watch it or parts of it whenever I get the urge. I'll fast forward to Chunk talking about hurling over the balcony of the movie theater when i'm sad just for a quick laugh!! Jerk alert - it's Chunk!! The mind is so strange and mine is stranger than most... Oh well it's good enough for me... I'm gonna go get some rocky road...
Monday, May 20, 2013
This is the end my friend the only end my friend...
Today Keyboardist and co-founder of The Doors, Ray Manzarek, died at 74 in Germany. He met a poet named Jim Morrison and together they made in a very short time some of the best music in the history of rock. I personally love the mix of music from haunting end times songs to sexy 60's free love masterpieces. Ironically what it really made me think of today when I first heard the news was PETE!!
Pete was one of the most interesting people i've ever worked with and in fairness one of the oddest. He would take his sandals (year round sandals, snow and all) off at work to not feel "restrained" while in "his process" - keep in mind he did basic data entry and not well (he was fired after 9mo). He was vocally liberal in the post 911 how dare you question W you commie bastard world that was 2002-2003 and in an office that is extremely religious conservative workforce. He was a simple man with no extravagant tastes (well that I know of, I think he might have enjoyed fine ganja, but that could be stereotyping) yet his wife was a filthy rich money is all UA/OSU socialite/business woman. And Pete would be very gushing over his love of his wife and kids, yet both times I met his wife she was a non-stop ball buster who seemed to enjoy telling Pete every wrong thing he was doing. Granted he usually was doing something wrong or annoying, but still... Also, the Salmon!! The Salmon!! I honestly think he got fired more over the Salmon then over his bad work, but everyday - EVERYDAY - he would microwave Salmon and stink up a pretty small office building, every inch of it!! All for his beloved Salmon on Rye bread with Mustard! Anyone hungry now?
But Pete and I had a bond over music, I would say stuff I didn't belief politically just to get him riled up and then I'd laugh and say what you listening to today and i'd laugh again. He was always listening to The Doors - Always! He'd say, I used to listen to it all - "I did the follow the Dead thing for a summer" and "I party'd with Joe Walsh once and he was a lite weight". Any man with that opinion must have lived a heck of an interesting life...
I only wish he was a better employee that enjoyed a less offensive lunch and maybe i'd have more interesting stories... RIP Mr. Manazrek, you made great music that will last forever and today you made me think of a guy that was truly interesting.
If my son asks me what kind of people to be around, i'll say good people of course, but i'll also say search for those that can tell a story and are interesting. Fascinating people with great stories are what really make the world go round and i've never gained more than when i've taken the time to sit and listen to someone's story and got to know them. The biography of a person's life from their own mouth is something great to hear.
Pete was one of the most interesting people i've ever worked with and in fairness one of the oddest. He would take his sandals (year round sandals, snow and all) off at work to not feel "restrained" while in "his process" - keep in mind he did basic data entry and not well (he was fired after 9mo). He was vocally liberal in the post 911 how dare you question W you commie bastard world that was 2002-2003 and in an office that is extremely religious conservative workforce. He was a simple man with no extravagant tastes (well that I know of, I think he might have enjoyed fine ganja, but that could be stereotyping) yet his wife was a filthy rich money is all UA/OSU socialite/business woman. And Pete would be very gushing over his love of his wife and kids, yet both times I met his wife she was a non-stop ball buster who seemed to enjoy telling Pete every wrong thing he was doing. Granted he usually was doing something wrong or annoying, but still... Also, the Salmon!! The Salmon!! I honestly think he got fired more over the Salmon then over his bad work, but everyday - EVERYDAY - he would microwave Salmon and stink up a pretty small office building, every inch of it!! All for his beloved Salmon on Rye bread with Mustard! Anyone hungry now?
But Pete and I had a bond over music, I would say stuff I didn't belief politically just to get him riled up and then I'd laugh and say what you listening to today and i'd laugh again. He was always listening to The Doors - Always! He'd say, I used to listen to it all - "I did the follow the Dead thing for a summer" and "I party'd with Joe Walsh once and he was a lite weight". Any man with that opinion must have lived a heck of an interesting life...
I only wish he was a better employee that enjoyed a less offensive lunch and maybe i'd have more interesting stories... RIP Mr. Manazrek, you made great music that will last forever and today you made me think of a guy that was truly interesting.
If my son asks me what kind of people to be around, i'll say good people of course, but i'll also say search for those that can tell a story and are interesting. Fascinating people with great stories are what really make the world go round and i've never gained more than when i've taken the time to sit and listen to someone's story and got to know them. The biography of a person's life from their own mouth is something great to hear.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Make the code 12345...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/05/04/nra-speaker-gun-safes-kids-bedrooms-home-defense_n_3216157.html
... so if your panicked during the break in you won't forget the code - duh!!
National
Retard
Assholiation
... so if your panicked during the break in you won't forget the code - duh!!
National
Retard
Assholiation
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
If you ask me the biggest mistake in my life...so far...
It would say - Voted for Bush a Second time - I feel no shame for 2000, how was anyone to know where it would go? But as this week is the 10 yr anniversary of the Shock and Awe war it's hard to believe that it took me so long to realize that my social beliefs are more important to me than my fiscal beliefs. Or maybe more accurately that there are few to no politicians truly fighting for fiscal conservatism (most republicans just pay lip service to it) and the few that seem truly fiscally willing to take the flag of financially responsible government leadership are fucking religious psychopaths on the level of Sharia law (Islamic laws where you know you can have your wife stoned to death if she I don't know sneezes funny?) only under the name of Jesus. You know the parts of the bible where it says love thy neighbor unless they do X,Y,Z and then in that case put them in a death camp and keep them from infecting the "Sanctity of Marriage" and yes sanctity does mean a 54% divorce rate. Oh and never under any circumstance (even violent gang rape) terminate a pregnancy, because fiscal responsibility is more unwanted children on the government dole (dole is British for welfare). Gun laws? Ha, we don't need those, everyone knows that all the gun loving adults of America are stable and mature enough to teach their children to be responsible and safe with guns and then to make sure and lock away those guns so the child doesn't have access to them, duh! That's why Columbine was our last school shooting tragedy? Climate change debate is probably some where in the middle of what both sides try and make you believe (i'm far from an expert), but why is it such a bad thing to try and make companies that make tens of billions of dollars of PROFIT every QUARTER (3 months) do a little more to make those profits safely? Anyway, I guess all i'm saying is when people (alot of people) I know keep asking me if I've watched the 2016 movie about that "African Muslim communist" in the white house, I wish they would remember the 8 year reign of destruction the was the Bush administration and that we survived it, we survived Carter for Christ sake - it's our best trait as Americans - we survive, hopefully!! I hope I can teach my son to listen to what people say, think about it and then form his own opinion, because what is hurting this world more than anything else is sheep - lots of bahhhhd bahhhhd sheep. Ok, I gotta get back to helping the rich fight off starvation and poverty that is higher taxes, we have a client considering only getting a used Lexus for his 16 year old - Fucking Obama!!
If you want to read a couple of letters from someone with real knowledge of the affects of the Iraq war...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_crucifixion_of_tomas_young_20130310/
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/?ln
If you want to read a couple of letters from someone with real knowledge of the affects of the Iraq war...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_crucifixion_of_tomas_young_20130310/
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/?ln
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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